![]() ![]() Dwight Eisenhower, a man who, Atkinson says, "seemed transparent and simple but was neither." Eisenhower's health suffered as he juggled the demands of his job as supreme commander, or, as he called it, "chairman of the board," making almost no one happy - until the final victory. ![]() He paints an especially human picture of Gen. His most detailed portraits are of those generals. He's more interested in telling stories about people, stories large and small, from the foxholes on the front lines to the generals' war rooms. It's a capstone for Atkinson's World War II trilogy, 14 years in the making, also including the Pulitzer-winning "An Army at Dawn," the story of the war in North Africa, and "The Day of Battle," about the Allies' invasion of Italy.Ītkinson's books don't dwell much on the geopolitics of war. The book is impressively researched - his notes alone take up more than 150 pages at the end of the book - and energetically written, with a brisk pace that carries the reader easily through the narrative's 600-plus pages. It's an ambitious task, and Atkinson, a three-time Pulitzer Prize winner, is up to it. But rather than focus on a piece, he tackles it all, from D-Day in June 1944 to the Nazi surrender in May 1945, in one sweeping volume. In "The Guns at Last Light," Rick Atkinson tackles a story that has attracted historians for decades, from Cornelius Ryan on: the Allied victory in Western Europe. ![]()
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